Fiorina’s falsehoods

“One of the benefits of a presidential campaign is the character and capability, judgment and temperament of every single one of us is revealed over time and under pressure.”

Since presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina made that comment at the start of the second Republican debate, there have been some telling revelations about her character and her judgment. Caught making a false claim, she couldn’t just admit she made a mistake but instead doubled down and worsened the falsehood.

Arguing during the Sept. 16 GOP debate to defund Planned Parenthood, Fiorina offered this description of a disturbing scene that was supposedly captured on controversial undercover videos of the organization: “Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.”

No such scene exists, as even some of her defenders have had to admit. Fiorina was challenged by Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace to acknowledge “what every fact checker has found”: that the scene was only described by someone who claimed to have witnessed it but was not shown in the video.

Fiorina could have acknowledged her error while maintaining, fairly, that the tapes contain other disturbing images and language and while affirming her objections to Planned Parenthood. Instead she insisted: “No, I don’t accept that at all. I’ve seen the footage.” She went on the attack against the mainstream media, and her supporters concocted a video that splices video and audio from different places in an effort to buttress her claims.

Most deceptive in the Carly for America video is use of an image (also used in the videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress) of a fetus born prematurely, not aborted, at 19 weeks of development. The premature birth by a Pennsylvania woman had no connection to Planned Parenthood or to abortion. That, though, didn’t stop Fiorina’s supporters from using it — with the voice-over and caption of “Here’s a stomach, heart, kidney, and adrenal” — to support specious allegations of Planned Parenthood selling fetal tissue for profit.

Fiorina may have deeply felt objections to abortion. That doesn’t excuse her use of untruths to justify her willingness to shut down the government, which by the way she seems to consider no big deal. “I’m not aware of any hardship to anyone, other than the veterans trying to get to the World War II memorial,” she said of the last shutdown.

When it comes to character and capability, that kind of blithe ignorance is another worrying sign.

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jonjon_jon

If one was assume what the Washing Posts says is true does it excuse the lengths the Main Stream Press uses covering up for there number one man?

Jill Stanek (born 1956) is an American pro-life activist and nurse from Illinois best known for saying “live birth abortions” were being performed at Christ Hospital in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn and the premature infants were being left to die in a utility room.[1][2][3][4] More recently, she has accused President Barack Obama of supporting infanticide while a member of the Illinois State Senate, referring to Obama’s opposition to Born Alive Infants Protection legislation.[5]

anticon

funny thing, there is is never any confirmation of the anti choice lies. you did notice your own post said a hospital and not PP

jonjon_jon

The point is the Main Stream Press covered up for Obama and didn’t report on this story when he was running. He’s been elected twice not a word said. I doubt if Carly will get through the primary. Yet the press is on full attack mode because she’s not a Liberal. That’s my point!

anticon

its all a conspiracy right?

jonjon_jon

No, I don’t think these people even understand what they’re doing. For the most part the press is liberal and the people they work for are also liberal. So it seems to be norm to them. They see the world from one view and can’t imagine for a minute their view could be wrong. I’ve posted it before, at one time I belonged to the Democratic Party. Now late in life I realize how distorted my perception of world was.

anticon

no, your perception is distorted now. republicans choose to continue give aways to the wealthy and business and screw the middle class. Every republican candidates tax plan feather their own nest trickle down is just trickle on. they would like to impose pseudp christian sharia law and want government out of out lives but has no problem getting between a woman and her dr.

jonjon_jon

Look I answered your question on why I felt the press core was covering for Obama on the issue of abortion. You’ve brought us to whole new discussion which has nothing to do with the article. I’m not going there. Get back on subject.

anticon

the press isnt so much liberal as they are not crazy conservative. and the far right is crazy.

jonjon_jon

Back on subject. And then I’ll address you.

Nina Sage

She didn’t lie Watch the video’s if you have the stomach for it.

anticon

she lied, like most anti choice people

anticon

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Ten times during the conversation, Dr. Nucatola said Planned Parenthood
would not sell tissue or profit from tissue donations, and all ten
instances were cut out of the video, misleading the public into thinking
she said something she didn’t,” edited by lying anti choice people for the gullible

FrankObsevr

Whoa…did someone,anyone,expect everything the candidates said in the debates might be true?
If that was the case there would have been mostly silence.
Was it forgotten what the format was?
Jeesh,haven’t you people who watch that drivel also suck up all those stupid ‘reality’ shows? Basically the same thing…that’s entertainment,folks!
So it goes.